Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-07-01

Closing Exercises of the High and Gram
mar SChoOIs Thursday.

The school year of the High and Gram
mar schools closed Thursday. At the
Grammar school the exercises took place
at 9 o'clock in the school room. The pro-
Cramme p,inted in yesterdays paper was
carried out and all present were much
pleased with the appearance made by the
young pupils.
The graduating exercises of the High
school occurred in the afternoon and at
tracted a brilliant audience, the Howard
opera house being filled to OVERLOOKING.
The following was the
PROGRAMME.
Concentration of Secret Power,
the Influence of the Novel
Alice Corneia Howe.
The Last of the Moorish King,
Harmon Sheldon Graves
The Humility of True Greatness,
Mary Helen Bosworth.
Select on-Amorta. ............. Czibul<a.
The Education OF the Indian. Fanny l.. Day
! Reverence, not Scrvlity Philip II. Moore.
| The COnquercr of the Nineteenth Century,
Edgar Hiram Adams.
/ Wa tz-Bri e Songs. ........ ........... Gung'l
| Asleep at Westminster ... ace. James =. Bole.
| \ Palace and Prison, Anna Laura Burnham.
! The Labor Question 800. Samuel Il. Maynard.
| Masks. Alice Cushmau Hammond.
rnc True Reformer John Brainerd Stearns
Music Ambos Polka ............... Parlow.
Presentation of Diplomas.
Musc-Formosa Galop .......... Weingarten,
On the stage with Principal Landon
were seated the members of the school
board, Mayor Henry and several of the
aldermen, several of the clergy of the city
and other citizens. The young gentle
men and ladies all acquitted themselves
well The pieces were well written. The
speakers were Self-pOSSeSsed aud as a rule
their enuncation clear and distinct
Messrs. Burnham and Alexander and
Miss hammond were especially fortunate
in their pieces and in their manner of de
livery. Mr.. Stearns was prevented by i'll
ness from speaking. Principal Landon re
marking that his piece had well earned
him place on the programme. All the
speakers were remembered by theil
friends with an abundance of flowers
while ON the stage there stood book
horse shoe and star, constructed of choic,
varieties of flowers and presented to the
graduating class by the classes of 80, Is!
and 'SS respectively. The Howard Oper;
House orchestra played march as tn,
twenty-five members of the class asCendet
the stage from their seats in the front row
and received their diplomas. The musi
throughout was unusually fine, the or
chestra being assisted by Mr.. Georg
Allen. In the evening the elias S-day eXer
cises were held at the High school hall
the audience being limited to the scholar
and friends of the graduating class. Tn
, programme was rs follows;
/ Address by the president. Harry ;. Holtor
, Class History. .-.... Frederick H. Wake
Mu,ic-The Chapel Steps Male Quartet
Prophecy .................. Daisy Louise Castl
; POEM. ...... ....... stephen Tracy Byingto
I Music-Star of Descending Night. Chort
z The following are the graduates:
g English course Edgar Hiram Adams, Fran
II. Alexander, Anna Laura Burnham, Fam
l.. Day, Alice Curnclib Howe, samuel f. May
uard. William Il. Cakes, Agnes Margafo
, Pye.
y Latin-Engli,h cOurse--,Iames p. Bole, Aim
4 Bertha Calvert, Daisy Louise Castle, AliC
!, Cushnan hammond, Philip II. Moore, Fred
eric H. Walker.
Classical course-Mary Ellen Bosworts
stephen Tracy ~ inRtOn, Herbert ShcltC
: Gould, Harmon Sheldon Graves, Harry Sy
vester llulton, Seymour Lee Lawrence, job
$ Brainerd ctcarus, Fred rio Thomas Stetson.